whoa. boy there is a lot to think about here. One the one hand Lindsey has been dragging his feet on several things. I’ve wondered about this many times.
And saying he liked McCain, hmmm.
McCain hated Trump and certainly didn’t need Lindsey’s input to give that fake trash to the FBI to make trouble for Trump. He was a real rat.
But then Lindsey came through on the Kavanaugh hearing though.
Hard to feel completely solid on this.
it’s true, McCain claimed he received the dossier AFTER the 2016 election, and FBI had it already:
23 May 2018: Business Insider: John McCain described how he received the Steele dossier that contains the most salacious allegations about Trump and Russia
by John Haltiwanger
The late Sen. John McCain provided intimate details of how he obtained the infamous so-called Steele dossier in his 2018 book, “The Restless Wave.”...
The Republican senator was attending an annual security conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia shortly after the presidential election in November 2016 when retired a British diplomat approached him.
According to McCain, he didn’t recall ever having a previous conversation with Sir Andrew Wood, but may have met him before in passing. Chris Brose, a staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and David Kramer, a former assistant secretary of state with Russian expertise, joined McCain and Wood in a room off the main conference hall.
After discussing Russian election interference for a few minutes, Wood explained why he’d approached McCain in the first place.
“He told me he knew a former MI6 officer by the name of Christopher Steele, who had been commissioned to investigate connections between the Trump campaign and Russian agents as well as potentially compromising information about the President-elect that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin allegedly possessed,” McCain wrote...
After further discussion, the group agreed to send Kramer to London to meet Steele. When Kramer returned from the meeting and told McCain that Steele seemed to be a reputable source, the Republican senator agreed to receive a copy of the dossier...
“The allegations were disturbing, but I had no idea which if any were true,” McCain said. “I could not independently verify any of it, and so I did what any American who cares about our nation’s security should have done. I put the dossier in my office safe, called the office of the director of the FBI, Jim Comey, and asked for a meeting.”
McCain ultimately turned the dossier over to Comey in a meeting on December 9, 2016 that he said lasted about 10 minutes.
“I did what duty demanded I do,” McCain wrote, adding that anyone who disagrees with his decision can “go to hell.”...
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-john-mccain-received-steele-dossier-trump-russia-2018-5?r=US&IR=T
following PDF available online:
Office of the Inspector General U.S. Department of Justice: Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation
from page 8:
With Fusion GPS’s authorization, Steele directly provided more than a dozen of his reports to the FBI between July and October 2016, and several others to the FBI through Ohr and other third parties. The Crossfire Hurricane team received the first six election reports on September 19, 2016 - more t han two months after Steele first gave his handling agent two of the six reports. We describe the reasons it took two months for the reports to reach the team in Chapter Four...
nonetheless, McCain and Graham added a Republican dimension to the attempted coup by delivering copies to the FBI.